Crane's Italian Popular Tales, pp. 85, 344, 345. Compare Gellert Myth and variants. See Story of Folliculus, Gesta Romanorum (Bohn ed.) Introd. pp. xlii. xliii. Baring Gould's Curious Myths, p. 136 ff. Edw. Clodd's Myths and Dreams, p. 128. "The Gnat and the Shepherd." Ralston's Krilof, p. 170. The Book of Sindibad, Folklore Soc. pp. 140, 145. For inc. 2, cf. Dasent, "The Lassie and her Godmother," p. 189 (3rd ed.) Busk's Folklore of Rome, "The Dark King," p. 100. Ralston's Russian Folktales, pp. 89, 100. Roumanian Gypsy Tale, "The Bad Mother," Gypsy Lore Soc. i. 26. "Our Lady's Child," Grimm, No. 3, vol. i. p. 7, and note to "Cinderella," ibid. i. p. 364. "Bluebeard" and variants. (See Hartland on "Forbidden Chamber," Folklore Journal, iii. 193-242; and Kirby on "Forbidden Doors of the 1001 Nights." Ib. v. 112-124.)
For inc. 7 (talking birds) cf. "The Learned Owl," Old Deccan Days, p. 74, Thorpe's Yule Tide Stories, pp. 35, 42, 64, 102, 125, 203, 220, 341, 451. Archaeological Review, March, 1889, p. 26. "Old Ballads," Folklore Record, ii. pp. 107-109; also, p. 192. Volsunga Saga (Camelot Series), p. 64. Corpus Poeticum Boreale, i. pp. 39, 131, 144, 157, 242, 255, 306. Callaway, Z. T. pp. 53, 66, 72, 100, 106, 121, 130, 134, 135, 219, 362, 363. Sagas from Far East, "The Use of Magic Language." Magyar Folktales, Kropf and Jones, p. 323. Campbell, i. p. 25; ii. pp. 288, 361. Thorpe, Northern Mythology, i. p. 97. Cox, Tales of Thebes and Argos, p. 175. Dasent, Norse Tales, pp. 113, 357 (3rd ed ). Grimm, Nos. 17, 21, 40, 46, 47, 191. Longfellow's "Hiawatha." Weil's Biblical Legends of the Mussulmans, pp. 24, 38, 40, 42, 44, 45, 101, 152. Bleek's Hottentot Fables, p. 65. Casalis' Basutos, p. 339. Tylor, Early History of Mankind, p. 347. Grey, Polynesian Mythology, pp. 57, 187. Pitré, Fiabe Novelle e Racconti Popolari Sicillani, vol. i. No. 21, p. 191. Stories from the Land of Hofer, p. 278. Schneller, Märchen, &c. aus Wälschtirol, Nos. 31, 32. Crane's Italian Popular Tales, pp. 17, 43, 75, 200, 327, 341, etc. Casalis, p. 339. Folklore Record, iii. 183, 240, 245. Folklore Journal, iii. 291, 292. South African Folklore Journal, I. iv. 74. Ibid. I. vi. 138. See also S. ja Tarinoita, ii. p. 2, "Leppäpölkky" (Alder Block) (where words of warning must not be repeated, or speaker will be turned into a blue cross).
For inc. 11, 14, cf. "Sun, Moon, and Morning Star," Hahn's Griechische Märchen.
For inc. 15, cf. Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, I. p. 185, note. Roumanian Gypsy Tale, Gypsy Lore Journal, i. 29. Stokes, Indian Fairy Tales, "Loving Laili," p. 83. Callaway, Z. T. "Uzembeni," p. 54 and p. 231, and see Bleek's Hottentot Fables, p. 76; also "Fitcher's Bird," Grimm, No. 46, i. 179. No. 47 Ibid. i. 185. "The Romance of Unyengebule," S. African Folklore Journal, I. iv. 74. Mallet's Northern Antiquities, pp. 105, 436. Campbell, II. 287. Dasent, Norse Tales, pp. 357, 439. Grey, Polynesian Mythology, p. 124.
Cf.? "The Secret-keeping Little Boy," Magyar Tales, Kropf and Jones, p. 233, and "The Three Dreams," ibid. p. 117.
